it's hard for me to swallow that this is considered "gaming".

Two months will take us out of summer where more people are spending time outside.

Also, summer jobs will be winding down and kids will (hopefully) have some money saved up for a big purchase.

FF11 was a PS2 game and very old.

I think this was still it's a pretty big announcement for Sony. I don't believe MS has any MMO lined up (since their Marvel game was cut).

Though it's obvious - unless some killer app comes out with this peripheral it's not going to be mass market.

Nintendo doesn't have to worry at all about either motion sensing device that coming from Sony and MS.

Still, I love peripherals and this one seems pretty cool (although I hope they tone down the ice cream cone look).

I hope they re-release Ico and SotC like they did with the MGS series before the new game came out. I missed out on Ico.